Sentences with phrase «call on lawmakers»

Seventeen people were shot and killed last Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which has sparked a renewed call on lawmakers for action on gun laws.

The groups also call on lawmakers to maintain discrete and significant funding for disciplines beyond reading, math, and science and to promote grant competitions within the disciplines, not between them.

Political watchdog groups gathered outside the courthouse to call on lawmakers to toughen up rules for outside income, campaign financing, and budget transparency.

Calls for Voter Reform: Voter turnout was low as usual for this week's elections, and on Tuesday, the «Vote Better NY» coalition, led by NYC Votes, the voter outreach arm of the city's Campaign Finance Board, along with other advocacy and good government organizations launched a petition drive to highlight the importance of election reform and call on lawmakers to pass legislation to modernize elections in New York.

Also at noon, faith leaders and low - wage workers will gather at the state Capitol for a Moral Monday press conference and vigil to call on lawmakers to end the culture of on - and off - the - books corruption that characterizes the policy - making process in Albany, War Room, 3rd Floor.

Also at 12:30 p.m., environmental advocate Erin Brockovich, the Alliance to Prevent Legionnaires» Disease, and the Allergy and Asthma Network will hold a press conference to call on lawmakers and health officials to work towards real, effective solutions to New York's escalating Legionella and Legionnaires» disease crises, LOB, Room 130, 198 State St., Albany.

At 10:15 a.m., Transportation Alternatives, NYC Public Advocate Tish James and mothers of crach victims call on lawmakers to support the Every School Speed Safety Camera Act, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

It said, «We call on the lawmakers to realize their role in the administration of Kogi State.

Specifically, the Vote Better NY advocates call on lawmakers to adopt the following common - sense reforms: Early voting: (A8582 / S3813B) New Yorkers should have a two - week period including Saturdays and Sundays to ease long lines on Election Day and give voters flexibility as they juggle work and family obligations.

Specifically, the Vote Better NY advocates call on lawmakers to adopt the following common - sense reforms:

Labor, community and faith groups held a vigil at the Capitol Monday to call on lawmakers to pass a significant raise in the state's minimum wage, increasing support for public schools...

The mailers seek full restoration of the cuts — $ 1.4 billion worth — and call on lawmakers to «stand up for kids.»

The company is calling on lawmakers to take action on «common sense gun reform,» including measures to address mental health, improve background checks, raise the age to buy a gun, and ban bump stocks and other similar accessories.

The company also called on lawmakers to pass «common sense gun reform,» including the banning of assault rifles, high - capacity magazines, and bump stocks, enact universal background checks, and more.

Close to a million students stood up and streamed out of classrooms across the country last week as part of the National School Walkout, which honored the victims of the Parkland shooting one month ago and called on lawmakers to pass gun control legislation.

Scott Israel, the Broward County, Fla., sheriff, called on lawmakers in Washington and Tallahassee to expand police powers by allowing officers to detain people for a mental health evaluation on the basis of worrisome social media posts or «graphic threats.»

The group is calling on lawmakers to the cut tax rate on income over $ 1 million, which the House bill as currently written would leave unchanged at 39.6 percent.

At the same time, Cuomo had called on lawmakers to «make the case» for a pay increase by personally testifying to the commission — a gambit only a handful took up in an election year.

Round I was fairly tame in comparison, calling on lawmakers to «Stand up for Kids,» with pictures of a sad - faced little girl sitting at her desk.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called on lawmakers to gradually increase the minimum wage from its current $ 9 an hour to $ 15.

Cuomo repeatedly called on lawmakers do «do the job to which you were elected... for which you get paid» (although, technically speaking, they haven't been paid since they blew the April 1 budget deadline).

The governor again called on lawmakers to slash state spending and predicted the failure to do so on the local level would lead voters to reject school budgets across the state today.

Adams had called on lawmakers to bring spending increases more in line with the rate of inflation in a March 10 New York Post column.

Hein called on lawmakers in 2017 and again this year to approved the legislation, saying the move would reduce the number of tobacco - related deaths and move Ulster closer to becoming a healthier county.

On his part, the Chief Whip of the House, Alhassan Doguwa, called on the lawmakers to «individually and collectively defend the integrity of the legislature» on the matter.

Suffolk County Legislator Rob Trotta has called on lawmakers to support his bill to put a cap on county fees.

Controlling rent - control (1997): As old rent - control protections faced a June 15 expiration, Silver lets the laws expire without ever calling on the lawmakers to debate — then immediately strikes a deal with Republicans to increase rent hikes on empty stabilized apartments.

Giovaria Hernandez of the Bronx said Cuomo's climate change polices don't go far enough and she called on lawmakers to approve the Climate and Community Protection Act introduced in the Senate and Assembly.

It was the worst school shooting since the February assault on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where a young man with an AR - 15 rifle left 17 people dead and prompted a wave of nationwide, student - led protests calling on lawmakers to tighten gun laws.

Instead, the group in September called on lawmakers in a Times Union op / ed to adhere to a specific list of standards.

At 10:30 a.m., a coalition of unions and patient rights groups from across New York will announce a campaign calling on lawmakers to pass the Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act, Albany Room, Empire State Plaza Concourse, Albany.

Tuesday the group called on lawmakers to pass legislation mandating that guns be stored in a safe or equipped with a gun lock, along with another proposal that would require all semi-automatic handguns sold in the state to be equipped with a device that stamps a unique code into a shell casing each time the gun is fired, making it easier for authorities to track guns used in shootings.

In a press conference before the start of the session, Horner and leaders from Common Cause and Citizens Union called on lawmakers to sign a «Clean Conscience Pledge» in support of a set of reforms, including a ban on outside income, greater transparency in the allocation of discretionary funds and closure of the LLC loophole.

Goeken says activists are calling on lawmakers to take action.

It's calling on lawmakers to affirm Acting Attorney General Barbara Underwood for the rest of the year, something she said in Thursday interviews she'd be happy to do.

-- Cuomo stopped short of calling on lawmakers to permanently install Underwood.

The New York State Sheriffs» Association is calling on lawmakers to include funding in the state budget to provide at least one armed school resource officer at every grade school and high school in the state.

Speaking at the Democratic Rural Conference this month, Cuomo called on lawmakers to approve the package, along with the Dream Act and public financing of political campaigns.

Survivors of sexual harassment who have worked in the Legislature have called on lawmakers to remove the issue from the context of the budget negotiations, saying state elected officials need to take a more thoughtful approach.

Amid talks to raise the minimum wage in New York, farmers are calling on the lawmakers to keep it where it is.

Declaring that the state's property taxes have the «deck stacked» against homeowners and business, Gov. Andrew Cuomo today released a web video calling on lawmakers to approve his 2 percent ceiling on local and school taxes.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo is calling on lawmakers to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana in public view.

In announcing the bill signing, Murphy called on lawmakers to advance legislation raising the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour.

The Council's «Tough Budget Choices» radio ad began playing in the Albany media market this morning, calling on lawmakers and the Governor to reduce spending in the state budget by making the same kind of difficult budget choices that legislatures in other states have done.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan took a different tack, calling on lawmakers to be proud of their work and to tout the positive policies they have and will continue to enact for New Yorkers.

In the petition, she called on the lawmakers to examine and investigate the governor and his deputy over the allegations.

The union also called on the lawmakers to support early child care.

They also pointed to a resolution introduced by New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik that calls on lawmakers to summon the nation's «ingenuity, innovation and exceptionalism» and commit to finding «economically viable» ways to address the risks of climate change.

Wisconsin Gov. James E. Doyle unveiled an ambitious education agenda in his State of the State address Jan. 30, focusing on higher education and calling on lawmakers to «make Wisconsin a place where anyone who is willing to roll up their sleeves and work hard... can afford to get an education.»

The president of the Oklahoma Education Association, Alicia Priest, said on Thursday that despite thousands of people calling on lawmakers to increase school funding, educators have seen no significant legislative movement since last Friday.